cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14399569

Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site

Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it’s collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

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    7 months ago

    I’m so confused tbqh but i haven’t had coffee yet

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I mean I rarely post sensitive images or any images online really, it was just kinda special occasion to post this in what looked like a very safe space and now I have to fill this request based on European law article 17 ‘the right to be forgotten’

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        7 months ago

        Oh yes exactly the way that regulators try to hide corporate investors behind these fig leaves like spending 5 minutes clicking switches to protect sensitive data otherwise whoops! we sold the location of a mother trying to escape stalking from her ex-husband! Whoops, we gave away all the personal information of these schoolchildren to anyone who could find it! Well, we gotta make a living somehow!